BY GILLOWS

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A REGENCY BRASS-INLAID READING TABLE
By Gillows
The rounded hinged top with book support and ratchet with scroll underside and on solid end-supports inlaid en contre partie with brass foliate panels, on platform bases with scroll angles and scroll feet and castors
27 in. (68.5 cm.) wide; 29 in. (74 cm.) high, closed, 17½ in. (44.5 cm.) deep

Provenance

Supplied to William Powlett, 2nd Baron Bolton (1782-1850) for Hackwood
By descent until sold in 1935 with Hackwood to William Berry, 1st Viscount Camrose (d.1954)
Thence by descent

Literature

Gillows Memorandum, May 1813, Two Libraries: '2 handsome rosewood reading Tables'

Special notice

VAT rate of 17.5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer’s premium.

Lot Essay

Although no library furniture is listed in the surviving Gillow bill, the Memorandum is sufficiently detailed for it to be certain that they supplied the main boulle library desk (lot 22) and a circular drum table no longer in the house but visible in early photographs. As this reading table is in Gillow's style and matches one illustrated in one of their room elevations, the evidence of the Memorandum is confirmed.
Another plainer but very closely related is illustrated in the General Sketch Book, 1810, p. 51.
The Gillow Drawing Room elevation that includes a table of exactly this type is among a group of watercolours in the Victoria and Albert Museum (E.47-1952).

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